Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-06-05

.a"t' AZ WIS tue swallow Ul that utter
sympathy and perfect accord which is the
~urvSt sign at the presence ct the highest
forms ot affection, amt when it accom-
pSuies the passion ot men and women, as
IL sometime. Though rarely does, being
wurc often toUud in its highest form in
Those relations from which the element Of
~~eNuaiity Is excluded, raises it almost
above the level Of the earth. For the love
where that sympathy exists, whether it is
between mother and son, husband and
wife, or those Who. while desiring il, have
no nope OF that relationship, is an undying
love, and will endure till the night of Time
has swallowed AT thing.
Meanwhile, ~ John reflected. the force
% |mch he WAS attached was moving into
action, and he soon found it necessary To
come down 10 the unpieaslutly practical
details oI BOer warfare. More particularly
did this ONE home this mind when.
shortly afterwards, the man next to him
WAS shot drai. and a little later he himself
wLS slightly Wounded hy 4 bullet which
passed between his saddle and his thigh.
Into the details OF the fight that enSued it
Is not necessary In enter here. They were.
% anything, more diScreditable than most
ct the epiSuurS ut that unhappy war, in
which the holding of PotchefStroom.
I~NdruhuTg. RuStenburg. and Wakkerst-
u are the only bright spots. Suffice it
tn SAY that they ended in something very
like AN inter rout at the hands OF 4 much
interior toure. and that, Il lew hours after
ice had started. John found himself on the
return road To Pretoria. with a severely
wounded man behind his saddle the am
bulauce being LETT i'm the hands of the
EoyrS1, who is they went painfully along,
mingled curses ai shame and fury with his
own. Meanwhile exaggerated accounts OF
what had happened hast got into the town,
ami, among other things, it WAS said that
Captain Mel had been shot dead. One
man who came i'm stated that he saw him
tall, ami that he was shot through the
head. This Mrs. Neville heard with her
own rams, and, greatly shocked, started to
communicate the intelligence to jess.
As soon rs IL WAS daylight Jess had. aS
WAS customary with her, u II over tn the
little house which she and John occupied.
The rulatlal." rs IL was ironically called,
aud settled herself there for the day. First
she tried to work and could not, 80 she
took q book that she had brought with her
lud began 10 read, butit was u failure also.
Her ewes would wander from the page,
and her ears kept Sirainiug to catch the
distant booming oI the biz guns that came
from tiIlv tu time floating across the hills.
The fact at the matter was tina the poor
gjrl was The victim off, prsScTtiment that
something was going to happen to John.
NJ. ,..,.H.. 81 ,,aHTfrpNft.. mind hp,.a zpI
.rrJi from this kind of thing ut one time
or o,hry in their lives, and have lived To
see tine Jolly of il; and, indeed, there was
moJc IA the circumstances vi the present
| ease To rNcuS" the indulgence i'm the luxury
ot prrScutim"ntS than is usual. Indeed,
"a, 10 happened, she was not tar out-Only
= sixteenth of IN inch or S0-tor John was
very u,alt, killed.
Np- finding jess in camp, Nus. Neville
made her way across TO The palatial, -
where 81" knew the girl sat, crying ~ she
went. az the Thought of the news that she
hJl 10 communicate. for the good soul had
gown very fond ct John Mel. Jess. with
. that acute sense oI hearing that often ac-
companies nervous excitement. caught the
sound OF the little gate 1T the bottom OF
the garden almost before her visitor had
GOT through it. ani ran round the corner
ct the house 10 Scc who il was.
Oue glance at Mrs. NcyilIe's tcar-Stained
face VAS enough for her. She knew what
v1S coming, and clasped at one OF the
vouu@ D.ur-gum trees that grew alon" the
uIth 10 prevent herself from falling.
What is it, she sail. family; is he
deadg'
YES. my dear, yes; shot through the
head. they say"
less made no answer, hut chung To the
slriiUw. feeling ~ though she were @oing
'pdir herself. and family hoping that she
m;.ht Ito 80. Her eyes wandered vaguely
front the flrr OF thu messenger of evil, first
M 10 the sky, then down to the cropped
and trndden velit. Past the cate of ''The
Ptlatiul' Garden run . r0Id. which, ~ il
happened. was a shortcut from the scene
o'the fight. and down this road came lojIr
KarirS aud halfclstrs, hearing something
or'a strctrher. with thrccor four carhiuccrs
riding behind. \ coat was thrown over
the rlce Of the form on the stretchrr, but
the les were visible. They were booted
and spurrcd. and the feet fell apart in that
reruliarly lax and helpless way oi which
there il no possibility of miStaking the
meaning.
took sh" stil, pointing.
''Nh, poor man. poor man said Mrs.
Neville. they are bringing him here to
lay him cut
Tacn .TrSS's hrautiiul ewes closed, and
down she went with the bcndiu" tree.
Presently the sapling snapped. and she fell
>rrsrless with a little cry. and ~ she did
sn the men with the corpse passed M.
Two minutes afterwards. John Mel,
hayia" heard the rumor oi his own death
ON arrival M the camp, and greatly icarin"
lest 1t should have cot to less ears. anne
cntrriuw hurri,lly across. aud. diSmonnt-
iug aS well Is his wound would allow,
ump,d nap the garden path.
",,rylt heavens. Captain Njelr' said
Mrs.. Neville. looking M: why, We
tho1vht that Won were dead
Nud ,la, is what you have been telling
. o.. rppoSc." he said, Stcrulv, @lIncing
al thu Irlr and deathlik" face, ',yon might
hryc waited till you were sure. Poor girl,
10 must have given hcra turn" and, stunp-
iug down, h. got his arms under her, and
Iiitiny her with some difficulty, limpcd oit
% the house, where he Ind her down upon
tine table. and. assisted by Mrs. Neville,
be,etn To do all in his power to revive her
80 obstinate was her faint. however. that
their efforts were uUavailiug. and at last
Mrs. Neville started of 4" the camp to get
some brandy. lcavin" him /" COON rubbing
her hands and s~prinklIug water on her face.
The good lady had not been gone more
than two or three minutes when Jess sud
denly opened her eyes and sat mp. and then
slipped her feet To the ground. Her eyes
tell upon John and dilatcd with wonder,
and he Thought that she was going to FAINT
again, for even her lips hlouchcd. and she
BEGAN to shake and trrmhlc AL over in the
extremity of her agitation.
less, Jess" he said, for Gods sake
don't look like that. Won Brighten me-
IL thought you wcre-l thought you
we're she said. slowly. and then sud
denly hurst into q passion Of tears an. fell
forward upon his beast and lay there sob
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